Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

[Walter Venable]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> wrote:
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> Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46:
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>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner
>>> <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:
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>>>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting
>>>> language to configure it.  Other than personal profit I cannot see why
>>>> people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar.  Really,
>>>> let's go past this one more time:
>>>>
>>>> "Sure, sendmail.cf is hard to work with so the solution is you learn
>>>> m4!"
>>>>
>>>> Did you look at the link he offered?  How helpful is that?
>>>>
>>>> Beside which, m4 is a PORT.  So if sendmail is not configurable
>>>> without a port, why isn't it a port?
>>>
>>> Can we go back to our regular hacking, please?  m4 is not a port:
>>>
>>>  $ which m4
>>>  /usr/bin/m4
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>> I wonder how that happened,
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> Too much alcohol?

Really? See /usr/src/usr.bin/m4/Makefile